diff --git a/docs/provider-fix-todo.md b/docs/provider-fix-todo.md
index 4885a55..9c7f487 100644
--- a/docs/provider-fix-todo.md
+++ b/docs/provider-fix-todo.md
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ Status: `[ ]` open, `[~]` in progress, `[x]` fixed and verified, `[-]` not repro
 
 | | Channel | Symptom | Notes |
 |---|---|---|---|
-| [ ] | `fapello` | "girl" and "milf" both 0 | |
-| [ ] | `chaturbate` | "girl" and "milf" both 0 | |
+| [-] | `fapello` | "girl" and "milf" both 0 | by design, documented in the provider: the site's search returns photo models, not videos; no keyword video search exists, so queries are literal-filtered over the feed |
+| [x] | `chaturbate` | "girl" and "milf" both 0 | format arguments swapped in the search URL (`girl/api/...?keywords=https://chaturbate.com`, a relative-URL builder error); fixed + unit test. Also stale-cache branch never refreshed. 90 results per query, yt-dlp resolves the live stream |
 | [x] | `cumlouder` | unknown tag takes 146s before returning 0 | a real 404 went through the requester's Jina/FlareSolverr fallback chain; now the raw response is read, 404 returns empty immediately (0s), 5xx/429 still retried. check.py passes |
 | [ ] | `vjav` | "girl" 0, "milf" 10 | may be term-specific |
 | [ ] | `xxxtik` | "girl" 0 (not re-run serially) | |
diff --git a/src/providers/chaturbate.rs b/src/providers/chaturbate.rs
index 92c740d..dac713c 100644
--- a/src/providers/chaturbate.rs
+++ b/src/providers/chaturbate.rs
@@ -138,6 +138,34 @@ impl ChaturbateProvider {
         Ok(video_items)
     }
 
+    /// `keywords=` search on the room list. (The base URL and query used to be
+    /// passed in swapped order, producing `milf/api/...?keywords=https://...`.)
+    fn build_search_url(base: &str, query: &str, page: u8) -> String {
+        let keywords = query
+            .trim()
+            .chars()
+            .map(|c| match c {
+                ' ' => "+".to_string(),
+                c if c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || matches!(c, '-' | '_' | '.' | '~') => {
+                    c.to_string()
+                }
+                c => {
+                    let mut buf = [0u8; 4];
+                    c.encode_utf8(&mut buf)
+                        .bytes()
+                        .map(|b| format!("%{b:02X}"))
+                        .collect::<String>()
+                }
+            })
+            .collect::<String>();
+        format!(
+            "{}/api/ts/roomlist/room-list/?keywords={}&limit=90&offset={}",
+            base,
+            keywords,
+            90 * (page.max(1) as u32 - 1)
+        )
+    }
+
     async fn query(
         &self,
         cache: VideoCache,
@@ -145,22 +173,15 @@ impl ChaturbateProvider {
         query: &str,
         options: ServerOptions,
     ) -> Result<Vec<VideoItem>> {
-        let mut video_url = format!(
-            "{}/api/ts/roomlist/room-list/?keywords={}&limit=90&offset={}",
-            query,
-            self.url,
-            90 * (page - 1)
-        );
-        video_url = video_url.replace(" ", "+");
+        let video_url = Self::build_search_url(&self.url, query, page);
         // Check our Video Cache. If the result is younger than 1 hour, we return it.
         let old_items = match cache.get(&video_url) {
             Some((time, items)) => {
                 if time.elapsed().unwrap_or_default().as_secs() < 60 * 1 {
                     return Ok(items.clone());
-                } else {
-                    let _ = cache.check().await;
-                    return Ok(items.clone());
                 }
+                // Expired: refetch, keeping the stale list as the fallback.
+                items.clone()
             }
             None => {
                 vec![]
@@ -347,3 +368,18 @@ impl Provider for ChaturbateProvider {
         Some(self.build_channel(clientversion))
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::ChaturbateProvider;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn builds_search_url_with_base_first() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            ChaturbateProvider::build_search_url("https://chaturbate.com", "big tits", 2),
+            "https://chaturbate.com/api/ts/roomlist/room-list/?keywords=big+tits&limit=90&offset=90"
+        );
+        assert!(ChaturbateProvider::build_search_url("https://chaturbate.com", "a&b", 1)
+            .contains("keywords=a%26b&"));
+    }
+}